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News and notes from around the interweb:
- Online bill payment service Plastiq, which lets you pay bills with a credit card and they mail a check so you earn points is running a promotion where they’ll rebate a portion of their fee if you schedule 3 or more mortgage payments using a MasterCard (by checking the box next to recurring when setting up the payment). You need to set up your first of three payments by December 31, 2017.
- When customers don’t pay extra for seat assignments on Ryanair they aren’t really assigned randomly unless random means ‘middle seats’
Copyright: trevorbenbrook / 123RF Stock Photo - Making sure you squeeze every free thing on offer during your hotel stay
- Subsidies for me but not for thee. Indiana appropriated $5 million, and Delta will fly Indianapolis – Paris. (HT: One Mile at a Time)
- Hotel rents goldfish to lonely solo travelers
- Undercover investigation: dirty 5 star name brand hotels in China
- How the Rat Pack brought scandal to the Las Vegas Sands Hotel
- Lam Zhou Homemade Noodle will re-open at 40 Bowery, south of Canal Street (HT: Jeremy R)
- Finally, passed along without comment:
On my flight. Pure awesome. pic.twitter.com/2eLCkw4hX1
— Bert Weiss (@BertShowBert) September 7, 2017
Goldfish to keep guests company have been around for a while. The Soho Grand and Roxy (formerly Tribeca Grand) hotels in NYC have offered this since their opening in 2000:
http://www.sohogrand.com/amenities/pet-friendly/
http://www.roxyhotelnyc.com/amenities/pet-friendly/
Umm, really, ask your hotel for free condoms? Great money-saving tip for high rolling travelers…
“best known for its pork and chive dumplings…”
According to a handful of white people of non-Asian descent. Eating there on any day it was clear the noodles were the biggest pull.
Love the dog on the flight! If my dog were better behaved I’d totally take him on a flight too. Maybe I can get my cat to be an emotional service cat, he loves people and is quite calm.
Very happy to learn of Lam Zhou’s relocation.
Kimpton Hotels has free goldfish: https://www.kimptonhotels.com/promos/kid-friendly-hotels
On that last item, I’m actually less angry about the dog (hope it had its own seat) than am I that the moron is wearing his backpack while walking down the aisle–and hitting each person he passes. I just don’t understand why people think backpacks are ok on planes/trains/buses/subways/etc.